Tap into higher-order thinking

- Did you know our brain has different levels of thinking? And the crazy thing is, growing up, schools usually only train us to use the lower-order thinking skills: remembering, understanding, and applying new knowledge. But school tends to lack practice and application of higher-order thinking skills, which also happen to be the ones that allow you to have the most impact: analyzing, evaluating and creating. These thinking skills are based on Bloom's Taxonomy, a framework first proposed back in the 1950s that breaks down the different levels of cognitive skills we use to learn, starting with a basic recall of information and working our way up to synthesis and evaluation of knowledge. You've heard references to higher-order thinking before, commonly known as analytical thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking. Analytical thinking is the ability to break down complex problems into smaller, more manageable pieces, which you analyze to draw sound conclusions and propose…